Oh Siri, you tease: the iBooks plug edition
So what happens when you ask Siri to find you a bookstore? You may get some awesome snark ("Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.") Or, Siri might "suggest" another way for you to grab a book to read.
Yes, Apple is now pushing iBooks as one of its canned answers for finding bookstores -- a fact we found amusing enough that we thought we'd share.
The targeted marketing hints, surprisingly, did not seem to spread to requests for "Where can I buy music?" and "Where can I rent TV shows?" It may be only an iBooks thing at this time.
In a related matter, Siri seems to handle book-specific queries in a new manner. When you ask "Where can I go to read a book?" Siri used to give you library and bookstore locations. Now you must ask something along the lines of "Where can I go to buy a book?" or "Where can I find a bookstore?"
That's because the old question now responds with "I'm afraid I can't do that" or "Oh, that would be cheating" -- exactly the same responses as when you ask Siri "Can you read me a book out loud?" or "Can you read me a book?"
It's always cool to see how Siri's processing evolves over time. Have you discovered some changed or intriguing behavior with Siri? Drop a note in the comments and share.
